I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

You know, it might be a problem when one of the nation’s top intelligence experts can’t determine what’s real and what’s not on the internet, which leads to thousands of other people believing it’s true.

And because this is 2018 and there’s a tweet for everything, yes, President Trump has used this same bogus quote himself:

America will never be destroyed from the outside.If we falter and lose our freedoms,it will be because we destroyed ourselves. A. Lincoln